Ypthima baldus
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Ypthima baldus, the common five-ring, is a species of butterfly in the subfamily Satyrinae found in Asia. Male: Upperside brown, both forewing and hindwing with terminal margins much darker, and generally with more or less distinct subbasal and discal dark bands. Forewing with a large, slightly oblique, oval, bi-pupilled, yellow-ringed black, pre-apical ocellus. Hindwing with two postdiscal, round, uni-pupilled, similar but smaller ocelli, and very often one or two minute tornal ocelli also.
Underside similar to the underside in Y. philomela but the ochraceous-white ground colour paler, thin transverse brown striae coarser, the ocelli on the hindwing more distinctly arranged in an echelon, two tornal, two median, and two preapical, and on both forewing and hindwing more or less distinctly defined, subbasal, discal and subterminal brown transverse bands.
Female: Differs on the upperside in having the area surrounding or bordering the ocelli on both forewing and hindwing paler, closely irrorated (sprinkled) with brown striae, the discal transverse band generally clearly defined, and very often both the tornal, and at least one of the... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Chattogram | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 3 | Dehradun | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 7 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 10 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Five-Ring sighting in Kozhikode on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 68th most-seen of the 138 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and April
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Common Five-Ring in Kozhikode on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and October–January, the lowest months. Those are among Kozhikode's driest months, with about 45 mm of rain a month against 390 mm in June.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Five-Ring sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 16
Of the 16 cities where we can rate Common Five-Ring sightings, Kozhikode ranks 8th at about 20%. The best odds are in Guwahati (India, about 30%), Chattogram (Bangladesh, about 30%) and Dehradun (India, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Five-Ring is recorded against all the insects logged in Kozhikode (12 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
